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Partial-MDS Codes and Their Application to RAID Type of Architectures

May 7, 2012 12:00am PDT

A family of codes with a natural two-dimensional structure is presented, inspired by an application of RAID type of architectures whose units are Solid State Drives (SSDs). Arrays of SSDs behave...

Provided by: Cornell University

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Efficient QoS for Multi-Tiered Storage Systems

May 7, 2012 12:00am PDT

Multi-tiered storage systems using tiers of SSD and traditional hard disk is one of the fastest growing trends in the storage industry. Although using multiple tiers provides a flexible trade-off...

Provided by: Rice Software Consulting

Q&A

How to Remove "the Disk is Write Protected" error for USB pendrive

May 1, 2012 8:44pm PDT

How to Remove "the Disk is Write Protected" error for USB pendrive I can't format my USB pen Drive, it shows the error as "The Disk is Write Protected" I tried various methods to solve this but...

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The Time for VM-Only Backup Technology Has Passed

May 1, 2012 12:00am PDT

The days of "test and development" virtualization have passed, and virtual environments have become common even for mission-critical workloads. Likewise, the time for virtual machine (VM)-only...

Provided by: Symantec Australia

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System-Level Support for Intrusion Recovery

May 1, 2012 12:00am PDT

Recovering from attacks is hard and gets harder as the time between the initial infection and its detection increases. Which files did the attackers modify? Did any of user data depend on...

Provided by: Vrigar Technologies Ltd

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Efficient Keyword Search in Relational Databases

May 1, 2012 12:00am PDT

A user who wants to get knowledge from a relational database that needs to know about structured query languages and database schema. Mostly users are not know to those things, so searching...

Provided by: International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Engineering & Technology

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Tape Storage Future Directions and the Data Explosion

April 30, 2012 12:00am PDT

It's time to bring your views of tape up to date as the future for tape technology has never been brighter. Today's tape technologies combined with disk technologies in a strategic blended...

Provided by: IBM

Q&A

installing raid drivers with out a floppy

April 26, 2012 5:42am PDT

installing raid drivers with out a floppy im setting up a adaptec 1220sa with 2 wd 500 enterprise drives on a windows xp pro, but my mobo intel dg43gt does not have a floppy controller nor do i...

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Survey on Computer Crime Scene Investigation Forensic Tools

April 24, 2012 12:00am PDT

In the day to day life, the crime is becoming a big issue in the computer field. So to avoid and to protect from crime, Computer Forensics is used. This paper describes different tools that are...

Provided by: IJCTT-International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology

Q&A

NEED HELP FAST!

April 22, 2012 11:21am PDT

NEED HELP FAST! okay well, i knew i had a lot of viruses over the past couple of years, but now it's gone to far. my computer got screwed up bad. my backround on my computer is blue, when i open...

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HP G7-1070US Restore via VGA

April 17, 2012 12:26pm PDT

HP G7-1070US Restore via VGA I am trying to restore my HP Pavillion G7-1070US laptop to it's factory default settings via Restore disks. However, I fell down the stairs not too long ago and broke...

1 Latest comment by shanerico54@...

Blog Post

VMFS-5 tips for storage provisioning

April 17, 2012 7:00am PDT

Since vSphere 5 introduced VMFS-5, there have been some big improvements in ease of use for storage management. Rick Vanover shares a few tips on the new clustered file system version.

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Singleton: System-Wide Page Deduplication in Virtual Environments

April 16, 2012 12:00am PDT

The authors investigate memory-management in hypervisors and propose Singleton, a KVM-based system-wide page de-duplication solution to increase memory usage efficiency. They address the problem...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

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Practical Scrubbing: Getting to the Bad Sector at the Right Time

April 15, 2012 12:00am PDT

Latent Sector Errors (LSEs) are a common hard disk failure mode, where disk sectors become inaccessible while the rest of the disk remains unaffected. To protect against LSEs, commercial storage...

Provided by: University of Toledo

Q&A

Ways to free up 12 GB from C: ?

April 13, 2012 2:23pm PDT

Well the easiest way would be to Compress the HDD that you are copying to and remove all of the Temp Files like the Page File System restore Points and so on. Also look in the Windows Folder and...

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FlashTier: A Lightweight, Consistent and Durable Storage Cache

April 13, 2012 12:00am PDT

The availability of high-speed solid-state storage has introduced a new tier into the storage hierarchy. Low-latency and high-IOPS Solid-State Drives (SSDs) cache data in front of high-capacity...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

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Efficient Virtual Machine Scheduling Exploiting VCPU Characteristics

April 12, 2012 12:00am PDT

Xen supports CPU-intensive domains fairly well, however, it has drawback for supporting I/O domains because I/O domain requires low latency data processing. In this paper, the authors propose a...

Provided by: Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)

Discussion Threads

Windows 8 Storage Spaces: How it works on the client side

April 9, 2012 10:38am PDT

Windows 8 Storage Spaces: How it works on the client side article root microsoft vision on system and data We often have wondered why Microsoft did system and data on 1 (one) disk on the first...

4 Started by amj2010 | Latest comment by Derek Schauland

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Connectivity of Large Wireless Networks Under a Generic Connection Model

April 6, 2012 12:00am PDT

Connectivity is one of the most fundamental properties of wireless multi-hop networks. A network is said to be connected if there is a path between any pair of nodes. Extensive research has been...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers